Top 100: David Bowie songs

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come on lets sort this out properly (i'd really like to be able to gather up what are considered to be his best tracks covering his whole career, covers, tributes to, homages by other people included)

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 12:07 (twenty-two years ago)

hurry up or i will be forced to put 'Heroes' or 'Let's Dance' at #1 - is that what you really want?

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 12:11 (twenty-two years ago)

31. "Hang On To Yourself"

― James Blount (James Blount), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 12:12 (twenty-two years ago)

1: we can be pierrots
2: man who smells the worm

― bob snoom, Wednesday, 9 July 2003 12:13 (twenty-two years ago)

73. "Battle For Britain (The Letter)"

― James Blount (James Blount), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 12:14 (twenty-two years ago)

3. Aladdin Sane
7. Queen Bitch
13. Warszawa

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 12:17 (twenty-two years ago)

10 "Yassassin"

― James Blount (James Blount), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 12:22 (twenty-two years ago)

ok good, feel free to do them in order tho...

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 12:36 (twenty-two years ago)

100. "Blue Jean"

― James Blount (James Blount), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 12:38 (twenty-two years ago)

4. laughing gnome

― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 13:29 (twenty-two years ago)

69.Cracked Actor

― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 15:32 (twenty-two years ago)

5. Fantastic Voyage
11. Sound and Vision
39. Loving the Alien

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 15:51 (twenty-two years ago)

22. Life on Mars

― dleone (dleone), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 15:53 (twenty-two years ago)

91.You've Got A Habit of Leaving

― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 15:57 (twenty-two years ago)

5. the jean genie
23. alabama song
45. moonage daydream
77. time
94. john i'm only dancing
95. john i'm only dancing again
98. cat people (putting out fires) (film version)

― zebedee (zebedee), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 17:05 (twenty-two years ago)

As performed by Iggy Pop:
24. Nightclubbing
25. China Girl

41. I Can't Read

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 17:13 (twenty-two years ago)

mother of god "john i'm only dancing" should be much much much much higher than that (like #1)!

― James Blount (James Blount), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 17:37 (twenty-two years ago)

6. Fame
8. Sufragette City

― Al (sitcom), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 17:41 (twenty-two years ago)

62. "Don't Get 2 Close (2 My Fantasy)," by Ween

― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 9 July 2003 18:11 (twenty-two years ago)

37. Speed Of Life
19. John, I'm Only Dancing [Sax Version]
91. Velvet Goldmine

― Sam Bloch, Thursday, 10 July 2003 16:11 (twenty-two years ago)

have we not finished this yet? erm, how about:

12. fashion
14. breaking glass
20. rebel rebel
51. drive in saturday
66. scary monsters and super creeps
67. the bewlay brothers
87. memory of a free festival

oh and jean genie shd be 15 obv. sorry.

― zebedee (zebedee), Thursday, 10 July 2003 17:03 (twenty-two years ago)

9. Watch That Man
14. Sweet Thing/Candidate
68. Joe The Lion
92. Red Money
93. Sweet Head

right?

― M Specktor (M Specktor), Thursday, 10 July 2003 17:04 (twenty-two years ago)

4. Always Crashing...
6. Lady Grinning Soul
9. Win
12. Secret Life of Arabia
22. Teenage Wildlife
34. Be My Wife
45. Word On A Wing

― Vincent Vern, Tuesday, 15 July 2003 09:59 (twenty-two years ago)

1. heroes
2. the man who sold the world
3. Aladdin Sane
4. laughing gnome
5. Fantastic Voyage
6. Fame
7. Queen Bitch
8. Sufragette City
9. Watch That Man
10 "Yassassin"
11. Sound and Vision
12. fashion
13. Warszawa
14. breaking glass
15. the jean genie
16. john i'm only dancing
17. Sweet Thing/Candidate
18. Always Crashing...
19. John, I'm Only Dancing [Sax Version]
20. rebel rebel
21. Lady Grinning Soul
22. Life on Mars
23. alabama song
24. Nightclubbing (by Iggy Pop)
25. China Girl (by iggy Pop)
26. Win
27. Secret Life of Arabia
28. Teenage Wildlife
29. Be My Wife
30. Word On A Wing
31. "Hang On To Yourself"
37. Speed Of Life
39. Loving the Alien
41. I Can't Read (by Iggy Pop)
45. moonage daydream
51. drive in saturday
62. "Don't Get 2 Close (2 My Fantasy)," by Ween
66. scary monsters and super creeps
67. the bewlay brothers
68. Joe The Lion
69. Cracked Actor
73. "Battle For Britain (The Letter)"
77. time
87. memory of a free festival
91.You've Got A Habit of Leaving
92. Velvet Goldmine
93. Red Money
94. Sweet Head
95. john i'm only dancing again
98. cat people (putting out fires) (film version)
100. "Blue Jean"

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 10:46 (twenty-two years ago)

32. all the young dudes
33. let's dance
34. ashes to ashes
35. party hard (by pulp)
36. oh you pretty things

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 10:48 (twenty-two years ago)

74. "Black Country Rock"
75. "Stay"
76. "New Moon on Monday" - Duran Duran (verses mainly)

― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 19:12 (twenty-two years ago)

38. DJ
40. Absolute Beginners

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 03:45 (twenty-two years ago)

space oddity?

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 03:50 (twenty-two years ago)

(I heard "John I'm Only Dancing" at a store the other day and for about five seconds thought it was "London Calling"!)

― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 04:22 (twenty-two years ago)

64. "What in the World"
65. "Jump They Say"

― James Blount (James Blount), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 04:26 (twenty-two years ago)

did you just hear the guitar part and then the banging "Randy Scouse Git" drums?

― James Blount (James Blount), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 04:28 (twenty-two years ago)

42. modern love

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 10:40 (twenty-two years ago)

it's impossible to crash the same car twice

― heraqlitis, Wednesday, 16 July 2003 10:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Time Will Crawl
Sister Midnight
Candy's Room (B Springsteen)
Rocket Ride (Kiss)
Shock Me (Kiss)
100,000 Years (Kiss)
It's Only Rock and Roll (Stones)
Lonely Planet Boy (Dolls)
Cherry Bomb (Runaways)
Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family
Crystal Japan
TVC 15 (if already mentioned, sorry)
My Sex (Ultravox)

(not to mention 'Something in the Air', 'Survive', 'Seven' and most everything else on that underrated album!)

― dave q, Wednesday, 16 July 2003 11:00 (twenty-two years ago)

My Stars (Alice Cooper) (seriously, wouldn't sound 'out of place' on 'Man Who...' or 'Space Oddity' music&wordswise)

― dave q, Wednesday, 16 July 2003 11:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Cygnet Committee
It's No Game 1
Space Babies (Tubes)

― dave q, Wednesday, 16 July 2003 11:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Germs 'Forming', for the shout-out ("Hey David!")

― dave q, Wednesday, 16 July 2003 11:10 (twenty-two years ago)

(re Kiss - on one 80s album there's a song that goes "HEY MAN, blah blah blah, HEY MAN, blah etc" u get the idea, an interviewer asked Gene "Is this a put-down of Bowie" and he replied "No no no! It's a tip of the hat if anything")

― dave q, Wednesday, 16 July 2003 11:13 (twenty-two years ago)

(now I remember, the song even goes "HEY MAN, you're gonna be a rock'n'roll suicide"!!!)

― dave q, Wednesday, 16 July 2003 11:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Brazen Hussies, "Crawfish". Well according to most critics anyway. And I'm supposed to be the resident Anglophobe huh?

― dave q, Wednesday, 16 July 2003 11:16 (twenty-two years ago)

(somewhat tangentially, "Uncle Arthur" is a terrifying unintentional portrait of what happens to some people in bands after they spend ten years getting nowhere and find themselves in their early thirties with absolutely nothing except a bad case of extended adolescence and no social skills whatever)

― dave q, Wednesday, 16 July 2003 11:21 (twenty-two years ago)

ha - I forget that KISS song, but I know what your talking about. Simmon's is full of shit too, it was pretty well understood to be a "rebuttal" to Tin Machine

― James Blount (James Blount), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 12:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Five Years (for fuck's sake)
Boys Keep Swinging
Wild is the Wind
Right
Somebody up there likes me

― James Ball (James Ball), Thursday, 17 July 2003 07:22 (twenty-two years ago)

More put-downs -
Guess Who "Glamour Boy"
Todd Rundgren "You Don't Have to Camp Around"

― dave q, Thursday, 17 July 2003 07:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Kraftwerk "Trans-Europe Express" for the shout-out

― dave q, Thursday, 17 July 2003 07:29 (twenty-two years ago)

James Brown "Hot"

― dave q, Thursday, 17 July 2003 08:30 (twenty-two years ago)

"david bowie" - the clean (it's real good how they pronounce his name in the correct incorrect fashion that everyone in new zealand does ie BOWie as in wowee)

― duane, Thursday, 17 July 2003 12:30 (twenty-two years ago)

pavement - wowee zowee (ok, just the first track)

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 17 July 2003 15:18 (twenty-two years ago)

It's weird in that I'm a hyper-Bowie freak and I just can't think of anything to choose, and haven't since the whole thread got started.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 17 July 2003 16:25 (twenty-two years ago)

"I'm Afraid of Americans"

― Applepie Baseball, Friday, 18 July 2003 02:24 (twenty-two years ago)

people who aren't ranking their suggestions understand it is understood their suggestions are to be placed in honorable mention pile

― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 18 July 2003 03:25 (twenty-two years ago)

that Phish song

oh, and:
Memory of a Free Festival
Strangers When We Meet
Ashes to Ashes
Shadow Man
Quicksand
Teenage Wildlife
Maid of Bond Street
When I Live My Dream
The Motel
We Prick You
Magic Dance
As the World Falls Down
Fantastic Voyage
Kooks
Sound and Vision

― A Nairn (moretap), Friday, 18 July 2003 12:50 (twenty-two years ago)

oh crap, well at least they are honorable.

― A Nairn (moretap), Friday, 18 July 2003 12:53 (twenty-two years ago)

No, I'm afraid you're all wrong. Sweet Thing/Candidate/Sweet Thing Reprise is the best Bowie song.
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― Susan, Friday, 18 July 2003 12:57 (twenty-two years ago)

NUMBER NINETY SEVEN: "I'm Afraid of Americans"

― Applepie Baseball, Friday, 18 July 2003 23:49 (twenty-two years ago)

No room for Changes?

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 19 July 2003 02:19 (twenty-two years ago)

four years pass...

for those in the UK, a free David Bowie compilation - with that right wing nutter newspaper: The Mail on Sunday

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s1646903.jpg

1 Life on Mars? 3:50
2 Medley: 8:50
i. Sweet Thing
ii. Candidate
iii. Sweet Thing (Reprise)
3 The Bewlay Brothers 5:22
4 Lady Grinning Soul 3:51
5 Win 4:45
6 Some Are 3:15
7 Teenage Wildlife 6:54
8 Repetition 3:01
9 Fantastic Voyage 2:56
10 Loving the Alien 7:08
11 Time Will Crawl (MM Remix) 4:55
12 Hang on to Yourself (Live) 3:08

― djmartian, Sunday, 29 June 2008 12:26 (seventeen years ago)

A bit random but not a bad selection...

― sonnyboy, Sunday, 29 June 2008 12:35 (seventeen years ago)

He should have put "The Laughing Gnome" on there...
Next week it's a Prodigy compilation with special remixes that have amended lyrics, including "Smack The Asylum Seekers Up", and a version of "Baby's Got A Temper" with all the references to rohypnol changed to Sanatogen.

― snoball, Sunday, 29 June 2008 13:13 (seventeen years ago)

Sweet selection of songs...
I wondered what that MM remix of Time Will Crawl was supposed to be and found this on BowieNet (it's probably printed in the paper, too)

Called iSELECTBOWIE, (see above) the twelve track CD contains a brand new re-recording of Time Will Crawl. Here's what DB says about this new version of the track which was originally a 1987 single release from Never Let Me Down...

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Time Will Crawl (MM Remix)
Produced by David Bowie.
Recorded & mixed by Mario J McNulty.
String arrangements by Gregor Kitziz.
String Quartet: Martha Mooke/Krista Bennion Feeney/Robert
Chausow/Matthew Goeke.
Drums: Sterling Campbell.

"There are a host of songs that I’ve recorded over the years that for one reason or another (clenched teeth) I’ve often wanted to re-record some time in the future. This track from ‘Never Let Me Down’ is one of those. I’ve replaced the drum machine with true drums and added some crickety strings and remixed. I’m very fond of this new version with its Neil Young of Shortlands accents. Oh, to redo the rest of that album.

One Saturday afternoon in April 1986, along with some other musicians I was taking a break from recording at Montreux studios in Switzerland. It was a beautiful day and we were outside on a small piece of lawn facing the Alps and the lake. Our engineer, who had been listening to the radio, shot out of the studio door and shouted, ‘There’s a whole lot of shit going on in Russia.’ The Swiss news had picked up a Norwegian radio station that was screaming for anyone who would listen that huge billowing clouds were moving over from the Motherland and they weren’t rain clouds. This was the first news in Europe of the satanic Chernobyl.

I phoned a writer friend of mine in London but he hadn’t heard anything about it. It wasn’t for many more hours that the story started trickling out as major news. For those first few moments it felt sort of claustrophobic to know that you are one of only a few witnesses to something of this magnitude. Over the next couple of months a complicated crucible of impressions collected in my head prompted by this insanity any one of which could have become a song. I stuck them all in ‘Time Will Crawl’. That last sentence rhymes." - David Bowie 2008

― willem, Sunday, 29 June 2008 13:52 (seventeen years ago)

I would be very grateful if someone could upload the Time Will Crawl remix for me...

― willem, Sunday, 29 June 2008 13:53 (seventeen years ago)

yeah i'd like to hear that, it is a great lost bowie song, stuck on such a terrible album.

― akm, Sunday, 29 June 2008 14:45 (seventeen years ago)

(wma)

― willem, Sunday, 29 June 2008 17:27 (seventeen years ago)

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